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Originally Posted by condor
Beautiful! It certainly has great value as an ancient book and a glimpse into the era in which it was created. But how many of us have actually seen it in person versus looked at a digital copy?
I love the way public domain ebooks can be copied and shared at will. Assuming the technology remains with us, copies will exist as long as someone thinks they have value.
My concern about a society mostly free of books is that access to electronic information can be controlled remotely.
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As opposed to printing presses being shut down my angry mobs, as often happened in the antebellum South?
Or as opposed to the newspaper and book publishing industries being controlled by a few large conglomerates?
With digital, if one copy exists anywhere, it potentially exists *everywhere*.
As long as the lights stay on.
Downside to everything, I guess, but I'll put my money on digital.